This is in response to a recent letter from Eugene Castellano. He refers to a recent New York Times article that reports that poor pregnant women without prenatal care are four times more likely to die during pregnancy than women on Medicare or private care and that such statistics won’t matter to a very dear friend of mine, Christopher Pearson, who is “pro-life” for “unborn babies.”

Mr. Castellano is assuming that anyone who was opposed to the universal health care law is also satisfied with leaving vulnerable people without health care. That is certainly an erroneous assumption as it applies to Chris, myself and the Catholic Church.

We do not object to everyone having access to health care. We do object to health insurance paying for the destruction of innocent human life.